Integrin endocytosis and recycling are important during cell migration, but it is not known whether integrins need to be degraded. In Developmental Cell, Stenmark and colleagues now report that the ...

In a recent study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Journal, researchers examined the therapeutic effects of targeting integrins for treating Amyotrophic lateral ...

Protein evolution occurs slowly via small incremental mutations—usually. However, dramatic changes can happen: for instance, a fragment of one protein getting copied into the middle of another. While ...

Integrins are heterodimer transmembrane receptors for the extracellular matrix composed of an alpha and beta subunit. Natural integrin ligands include laminin, fibronectin, and vitronectin, but they ...

Scientists from the Mechanobiology Institute, Singapore (MBI) at the National University of Singapore have discovered the universal building blocks that cells use to form initial connections with the ...

This year’s Lasker Basic Medical Research Award recognizes the contributions of Drs. Richard Hynes, Erkki Ruoslahti, and Timothy Springer for their discovery and characterization of integrins, a major ...

The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has caused immense suffering and economic hardship to millions of people worldwide. To date, the mechanism of infection by SARS-CoV-2 ...

Researchers from the US and China summarize the role of integrins in cancer cells and the current status of anti-integrin therapy for cancer Globally, human hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is the sixth ...

Newly unveiled startup Morphic Therapeutic hopes that it’s solved some of the technical challenges that have hindered integrin-targeting therapeutics. It’s got more insight into their mechanism of ...

A team from Würzburg has fundamentally changed our understanding of platelet biology. The researchers demonstrate that the surface protein integrin αIIbβ3 is not only a key molecule in blood clotting, ...